The Many Colors of Betrayal

We should, I believe, be judged by our compromises more than our ideals and norms. Ideals tell us something important about what we would like to be. But compromises tell us who we are.” Avishai Margalit wrote these words about his 2013 book On Compromise and Rotten Compromises. For Christians, it may be a discomforting message. But it has the ring of realism and, I suspect, is what most moral discernment and direction can achieve.